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Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleuræ, or to the sides of the thorax.

Pain in the side or region of the ribs.

Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.

Situated under the pleural membrane.

ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.

rous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.

Pleural.

companied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity. Pleurisy root. (Bot.) (a) The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) which is used as a remedy for pleuritic and other diseases. (b) The plant itself, which has deep orange-colored flowers;…

Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.

The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.

Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.

ng of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.

The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.